Western Territories
The land purchase made by Thomas Jefferson that doubled the size of the country overnight.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Discovered in California in the 1840s.
What is gold?
The invention that removes seeds from cotton.
What is the cotton gin?
Name of the path that Harriet Tubman took slaves on in order to escape to the North to freedom.
What is the Underground Railroad?
Name of the piece of money that Susan B. Anthony's image is printed on.
What is the one dollar coin?
The country that owned Florida before giving it to the United States.
What is Florida?
The availability of this resource helped with building houses and businesses out in the western territories.
What is timber?
(Will also accept: wood, lumber, or trees)
The fastest mode of water transportation during Westward Expansion.
What is the steamboat?
Name of the most well-known conductor of the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
Name of the suffragist that was a freed slave who gave speeches on the horrors of slavery as well as the need for women to have equal rights.
Who is Isabel Sojourner Truth?
Gold was discovered in this territory.
What is California?
Names of the two explorers sent by Thomas Jefferson to explore the Louisiana Territory.
Who are Lewis and Clark?
Worked with Cyrus McCormick to invent the reaper.
Who is Jo Anderson?
Name of the newspaper that Frederick Douglass wrote.
What is The North Star?
Name of the suffragist that organized the first woman's rights convention.
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
Territory shared between the United States and Great Britain.
What is Oregon?
Where the Oregon Trail and the Santa Fe Trail began.
What is Missouri?
The fastest mode of land transportation during Westward Expansion.
What is the steam locomotive?
Name of the leading spokesperson for the Abolition Movement who was also present at the first woman's rights convention.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
Name of the suffragist that got a college in New York to accept women.
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
This territory became a republic for a short period of time before joining the United States as a state.
What is Texas?
Manmade waterways used to move people and supplies.
What is a canal?
Someone who brings an idea to the market with the hope of gaining money.
What is an entrepreneur?
Name of the newspaper that William Lloyd Garrison wrote.
What is the Liberator?
Said that, "we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men and women are created equal."
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?